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Show Q. Camion. He has served Ephraim in the city council and for three terms has served in the Territorial Legislature. Legisla-ture. He leaves a family of sixteen children, sixty grandchildren and eightgreat-grandchildren. PRESIDENT PETERSON. The funeral of the late President Canute Peterson was held in the Ephraim Tabernacle last Saturday at noon. The city was crowded with friends who came from far and near to pay tribute to the memory mem-ory of the dead churchman. The speakers were Apostles Teas-dale Teas-dale and Smoot, Elders John B. Maiben, President Lund of the North Sanpete stake, Patriarch Christensen, Judge Dusenberry, John D. T. McAllister, J. M. Sjo-dahl, Sjo-dahl, Apostle John Henry Smith, and Elder Henry Beal. Canute Peterson was born in Eidfjord, Hardanger, Norway, 13 May, 1824, his parents being Peter Johnson and Herboro- Peterson. At 12 years his parents removed to La Salle county. 111., later dying there. In 1842 he joined the Mormon Mor-mon church, and in 1849 came to Utah, settling in Salt Lake. He was married the same year to Sarah Sa-rah Ann Nelson, who died in 1896. Later he located in Lehi, where he was married to Gertrude Rolfson and Charlotte Ekstrom, who survive sur-vive him. In 1852 he went on a mission to Norway, where he spent four years, and again in 1871, remaining two years. In 1867 he located at Ephraim, where he presided as bishop until 1877, when he was ordained as president of Sanpete stake, which is now divided into two stakes, he being president of the South Sanpete San-pete stake at the time of his death. In 1892 he was ordained a patriarch patri-arch by the late President George |